| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 35 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 25 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 teaspoon saffron threads, 2 pinches
- 1 1 /2 cups white rice
- 3 tablespoons evoo, extra-virgin olive oil, 3 turns of the pan
- 6 medium pieces chicken breast, 6 ounces, each breast cut in half across the breast
- Salt and pepper
- 4 cloves garlic, cracked away from skin and crushed
- 1 medium onion, quartered, then thinly sliced
- 1 bay leaf, fresh or dried
- 2 jarred pimentos, drained, halved and sliced
- 1/4 cup, 2 handfuls, golden raisins
- 1 small tub, 1 cup, Spanish jumbo green pitted olives, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons butter, chopped into pieces
- 1/3 cup, a couple of handfuls, flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds, a few handfuls, toasted
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan bring stock and butter to a boil. Add saffron and rice. Cover pot, reduce heat to low and simmer 18 to 20 minutes. Fluff with fork.
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, brown chicken seasoned with salt and pepper in 2 tablespoons oil, 2 turns of the pan, about 2 – 3 minutes on each side. Remove chicken and add another tablespoon evoo, a turn of the pan. Add garlic and onions and sauté 2 minutes to begin to soften them. Stir in bay, pimento, olives, raisins. Add wine and cook 1 minute, picking up any pan drippings. Add stock and bring liquid up to a bubble. Whisk in butter until melted. Return chicken to the pan and reduce heat to simmer. Cook 15 minutes.
- Serve chicken over saffron rice and garnish with lots of chopped parsley and a generous topping of toasted almonds.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 1218 |
| Total Fat | 42 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Carbohydrates | 87 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Sugar | 12 g |
| Protein | 107 g |
| Cholesterol | 328 mg |
| Sodium | 2154 mg |
Reviews
I’ve been making this since I saw it on her show 10 years ago! It’s perfect for company or just your self. If you say it doesn’t have flavor ….. you’re doing it wrong!!!!!
I love this recipe! So much so that I shared it with my best friend and she enjoyed it so much she made it for company who also enjoyed it! I’m puzzled why some ratings said that it was lacking in flavor. I thought just the opposite, it’s full of flavor! And brings in some of unique Spanish flavors. Highly recommend Chicken for Almodovar.
What a disappointment. It sounded so good but it really was just a bland, tasteless dish. I should have realized that when the only “seasoning” was 1 bay leaf. My husband who is always kind when I try new dishes said, “your chicken cacciatore is way better than this.”. I won’t be making this again!
I love it!! I’ve been making it for years
Very disappointed – just really mediocre and very salty – there are no herbs or spices to combat the salt in the cup of olives and the pimento/roasted peppers – way too much liquid with the wine and broth in the sauce – I added some sherry and some oregano and this is still very mediocre.
Perfect 5 star!!! I have made this 5 times and it is so flavorful. My husband gave me a A+ it became part of my collections of recipes. The only change i did is i cut up the chicken into small bite pieces and I used Moscato D’ Asti white wine and it was super delish!!!!
I made this recipe yers ago and lost it! At last I’ve found it again. Love the ease of prep and full flavor. Reading other comments about the chanes others have made has given me ideas of my own.
Many of Rachel’s recipes allow for substituion of other ingredients.
If you have a chance try her chiken and dumpling!!!
I made this dinner last night for my family and a couple comments I got was:
“This is the best dinner I’ve had in a long time!”
“You can definitely entertain with this”
“This is the best dinner I’ve had in a long time!”
“You can definitely entertain with this”
You need to try this! I used brown rice instead of white rice, and with the stock, butter, and safron I did not miss the white rice at all…it’s wonderful!
for me, this dish was bland. my husband and i had to add hot sauce to it.
EASY, FLAVORFUL, DIFFERENT.